Ramadan Mubarak! Ramadan officially begins today. I am very excited to participate in the #RamadanReadathon hosted by Nadia at Headscarves and Hardbacks. The purpose of this readathon is to celebrate and support Muslim authors during the holy month of Ramadan.
The readathon this year will be taking place between May 6th and June 4th!

The main focus this year is a bingo board that is themed around the five pillars of Islam. Each pillar has four different prompts and one free space to complete! To participate in this reading challenge, you must choose one or more of the pillars to complete and, beginning at the bottom, work your way up the board. I am going to aim for the Faith and Prayer Pillars. Below is my tbr pile for the readathon:

Multiple Point of Views:

Ayesha Shamsi has a lot
going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching
job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with
her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her
flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth
marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged
marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he
is conservative and judgmental. She is irritatingly attracted to
someone who looks down on her choices and dresses like he belongs in the
seventh century.

Ayesha is torn between how she feels about the
straightforward Khalid and the unsettling new gossip she hears about his
family. Looking into the rumors, she finds she has to deal with not
only what she discovers about Khalid, but also the truth she realizes
about herself.

Recommended to You:

Set in a horrifying
near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents
are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.

With
the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp,
her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a
journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the
internment camp's Director and his guards.

Historical Fiction:

Set in 1491 during the reign of the last sultanate in the Iberian peninsula, The Bird King
is the story of Fatima, the only remaining Circassian concubine to the
sultan, and her dearest friend Hassan, the palace mapmaker.

Hassan
has a secret--he can draw maps of places he's never seen and bend the
shape of reality. When representatives of the newly formed Spanish
monarchy arrive to negotiate the sultan's surrender, Fatima befriends
one of the women, not realizing that she will see Hassan's gift as
sorcery and a threat to Christian Spanish rule. With their freedoms at
stake, what will Fatima risk to save Hassan and escape the palace walls?

As Fatima and Hassan traverse Spain with the help of a clever jinn to find safety, The Bird King asks us to consider what love is and the price of freedom at a time when the West and the Muslim world were not yet separate.

Nonfiction:

Doaa and her family
leave war-torn Syria for Egypt where the climate is becoming politically
unstable and increasingly dangerous. She meets and falls in love with
Bassem, a former Free Syrian Army fighter and together they decide to
leave behind the hardship and harassment they face in Egypt to flee for
Europe, joining the ranks of the thousands of refugees who make the
dangerous journey across the Mediterranean on overcrowded and run-down
ships to seek asylum overseas and begin a new life.

After four
days at sea, their boat is sunk by another boat filled with angry men
shouting threats and insults. With no land in sight and surrounded by
bloated, floating corpses, Doaa is adrift with a child’s inflatable
water ring around her waist, while two little girls cling to her neck.
Doaa must stay alive for them. She must not lose strength. She must not
lose hope.

Free Space:

Kamala Khan continues
to mix super-heroic adventure with fun and friendship! Starting with... a
slumber party! But if calamity strikes Jersey City while Kamala is
having a sleepover with Nakia, Zoe and Mike, how can Ms. Marvel save the
day without bailing on her best friends?

And speaking of BFFs,
Bruno is back — and he and Kamala are learning how to be pals again.
What better bonding experience than geeking out over a little science?
And what better experiment to run than trying to figure out how Ms.
Marvel's powers work?

But when things go awry and with her
uncanny abilities on the fritz, Kamala will have to pull it together to
battle a classic Marvel villain!

The next big step for Kamala Khan begins here!

Number/Name in the Title:

Every explorer needs a
map! Baba encourages Yasmin to make one of her own. But when Yasmin
loses sight of Mama at the farmer's market, can her map bring them back
together?

Recently Bought/Released:

Zafira is the Hunter,
disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz
to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those
foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. If Zafira was
exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir
displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal
of ways. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya—but neither wants to be.

War
is brewing, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing
the land in shadow. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost
artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz,
Nasir is sent by the king on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact
and kill the Hunter. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey
unfolds—and the prize they seek may pose a threat greater than either
can imagine.

Contemporary Fiction:

From William C. Morris Award
Finalist Ali comes an unforgettable romance that is part "The Sun Is
Also a Star" mixed with "Anna and the French Kiss, " following two
Muslim teens who meet during a spring break trip.

Free Space:

A music-loving teen with
OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during
the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this
heart-pounding literary debut.

Part of a Series:

Elias and Laia are
running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial
soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and
undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.

Laia
is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous
prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival.
And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up
his last chance at freedom.

But dark forces, human and
otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every
step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor
Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most
heartbreaking of all, Helene—Elias’s former friend and the Empire’s
newest Blood Shrike.

Bound to Marcus’s will, Helene faces a
torturous mission of her own—one that might destroy her: find the
traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape…and
kill them both.

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